Training in the times of COVID-19 and beyond
Trainers | Journalism for the new normal, Training in the times of COVID-19 and beyond
Journalism for the new normal, Training in the times of COVID-19 and beyond
Trainers
Senior Journalist
Prem Panicker is an Indian cricket journalist. He was one of a handful of journalists who helped found Rediff (Nasdaq: REDF). He was based in New York City, as editor of India Abroad, the largest Indian-American newspaper, after that paper was bought by Rediff. He was the former managing editor at Yahoo! India and is currently based in Bangalore. He translated the book Randamoozham from Malayalam - it is a well received book called Bhimsen, that explores the mahabharata through the viewpoint of Bhima.fda
Video Journalist and documentary film maker
Veda Shastri is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker. She is currently a contributingstory producer for National Geographic. She was earlier a producer at The New York Times, for her work at the NYT she has won an Online Journalism Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She reported and produced over 100 stories for the New York Times, from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, inside a Black Hawk in Puerto Rico, to the lava fields of Iceland. She also produced a series on food scarcity in Venezuela, the series “Genocide’s Legacy,” as well as “Return to Mosul,” a family’s journey home to former ISIS territory in Iraq. Prior to joining the Times, Veda co-produced the VR documentary, “Return to Chernobyl” for PBS Frontline, which was nominated for an Online Journalism Award. She also directed the 2017 documentary short, “Ladies Only.”
Veda earlier worked as a news producer at CNN-IBN, a television news channel headquartered in New Delhi, for 5 years, producing live news bulletins and special programming. Hailing from Boston, she has an MA from New York University’s Journalism and Documentary Film program, and a BA in Anthropology from Tufts University.
Digital marketing and branding consultant
Alok Agarwal is an individual digital marketing consultant having Technical Professional Experience of more than 15+ Years. He has rich experience in working as Digital and Social Media Expert. He possess an in-depth knowledge of Search Engine algorithm, Social Platform and Social Engineering. He has done extensive research on Role of Social media and Social content in common people day to day life and how the same is changing the life of common man and how it entered in our life. Alok is also a social speaker and also guide companies and people how to use social media and to get its benefits.
Digital Media Consultant
Sunil Prabhakar is serving as a Consultant to the Online Section of Mathrubhumi, a leading National Daily in Malayalam in Kerala, India. His role in Mathrubhumi Online is to bridge the gap between technology and content. Sunil is currently engaged in developing new technologies and strategies in digital journalism and training people. Sunil has participated in numerous training programmes, conferences, workshops etc. and took efforts to learn new things through online and offline modes. When the MoJo (Mobile Journalism) came he was entrusted to find out and implement new possibilities on this. Under his guidance Mathrubhumi developed in-house technologies and methods and the company soon achieved an average viewership of 200 million per week in social media platforms for news videos produced using smartphones. Besides Mathrubhumi, he is providing training to lot of people from various organisations including media houses and journalism schools. This includes National Institutes, Universities, Information & Public Relations Departments of Governments and various NGOs, Police Departments, Media houses etc.
Senior Journalist
Rituparna Chatterjee is an intersectional feminist editor with 16 years of experience working across media platforms, including digital, print and wire services. She covers press freedom in the sub-continent for Reporters Without Borders, writes for multiple Indian and foreign media organisations on a range of subjects under the umbrella of gender based violence, and is the Director of Communications for the legal advisory firm, Ungender Legal Advisory focused on building inclusive workplaces. Rituparna is a workplace sexual harassment prevention campaigner and leverages social media platforms to build safe conversation circles on work, gender, feminism and violence.
